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Ride reports & bike news from Chain Reaction's Mike JThu Mar 28 11:13:05 2024 / +0000 GMTUniversal Post Manager 1.1.2 [ www.ProfProjects.com ] Contador loses 2010 Tour de France title, banned for 2011, and a sad look at teams gone
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Thu Mar 28 11:13:05 2024 / +0000 GMThttp://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/?p=1403And so it goes. I figured they'd give Contador a token 4 month suspension and take away his 2010 Tour de France victory, but I think he miscalculated and pushed his "innocence" too far. My guess is that he could have cut a deal early on, but went for broke. Maybe he could have skated free if not for the plasticizers they found in his blood (plasticizers being something you pick up from a blood bag during a transfusion, and there are no longer any legally-permissible reasons for transfusions short of one supervised by a doctor for medical conditions that must be documented and demonstrated to be extremely serious).